This race went about as I expected, although Hilda was not as strong as I thought. I did not see anything that made me believe that the Alabama No. 1 could beat Valby, and some of those overseas times don't always translate.
Nationals will be close. Valby is putting in some big efforts. Tuohy seems to be on schedule.
Why is valby throwing down such hard efforts when she could’ve taken that without pushing like that?
Can tell none of you have raced at the NCAA D1 level before, eh?
Why is Valby pressing so hard when she’s got this locked up? She’s grimacing and looks all out right now. The big race isn’t for a couple more weeks.
A hard effort two weeks out for a male would be good; not sure about women. But they might need to sit her at Regionals; she goes out like Pre every race.
Her coaches should discuss it with her, like Bowerman would have with Pre.
U of F women 2, 3, 4, 5 were all transfers?? Is that right/
Correct.
Valby was the exiting low stick. When Bama coach came over to UF during track, Asekol and Wilson came with him. When New Mexico coach left, that team scattered, and Thorner and Mazza-Downie joined.
It was the perfect transfer portal scenario for someone who was looking for a team where they could absolutely contribute, and there was a total stud already there.
That’d be a PR 5k for Valby on the TRACK at 15:13 split, and keep going to run 18:37?
No way I buy that this course is accurately measured.
If you look at the splits, it seems like both the men and women ran significantly faster for 4K-5K. Men sudden;y jumped to 2:35 from 3:13/3:01 for the previous two. Valby went to 2:53 from 3:30/3:22.
That’d be a PR 5k for Valby on the TRACK at 15:13 split, and keep going to run 18:37?
No way I buy that this course is accurately measured.
If you look at the splits, it seems like both the men and women ran significantly faster for 4K-5K. Men sudden;y jumped to 2:35 from 3:13/3:01 for the previous two. Valby went to 2:53 from 3:30/3:22.
Yeah, maybe 200 meters short in that section, so a 5,800 meter event overall? I’d buy that.
This race went about as I expected, although Hilda was not as strong as I thought. I did not see anything that made me believe that the Alabama No. 1 could beat Valby, and some of those overseas times don't always translate.
Nationals will be close. Valby is putting in some big efforts. Tuohy seems to be on schedule.
Why is valby throwing down such hard efforts when she could’ve taken that without pushing like that?
When she runs….she runs.
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I just don’t get why she was running herself so hard after the gap formed at 1.5k to go. Maybe she tries to get max effort on days she can run? Like you can’t say she wasn’t going all out when her form was falling apart and she was gritting her teeth.
Will be interesting to see if she keeps it up through regionals and nats.
If she underperforms at nationals in 22 days it won’t be because she ran an all out 6k 3 weeks prior.
This was her second race since June. A big effort is more likely helpful than deleterious to her preparedness for Nats.
That’d be a PR 5k for Valby on the TRACK at 15:13 split, and keep going to run 18:37?
No way I buy that this course is accurately measured.
These people who measure these courses - do they have any self-respect where they would want to measure these courses accurately. How can you not measure a Conference championship correctly. Go out there the day before and measure it 4 times. How hard is it?
This race went about as I expected, although Hilda was not as strong as I thought. I did not see anything that made me believe that the Alabama No. 1 could beat Valby, and some of those overseas times don't always translate.
Nationals will be close. Valby is putting in some big efforts. Tuohy seems to be on schedule.
Tuohy might be on schedule but her schedule has her finishing about 30 seconds behind Valby. Perhaps Katelyn might want to expedite her schedule. Her current schedule ain't going to cut it.
Watching the race, I'm curious if Doris Lemngole lost track of where she was on the course. She accelerated and even opened a small gap on Valby at 4k, which is where they run across the finish line before heading out for the final 2k loop. Then as soon as they were past the finish line, Valby took over again and dropped her, hard. I'm wondering if Lemngole didn't realize there was another lap to go.
I just don’t get why she was running herself so hard after the gap formed at 1.5k to go. Maybe she tries to get max effort on days she can run? Like you can’t say she wasn’t going all out when her form was falling apart and she was gritting her teeth.
Will be interesting to see if she keeps it up through regionals and nats.
If she underperforms at nationals in 22 days it won’t be because she ran an all out 6k 3 weeks prior.
This was her second race since June. A big effort is more likely helpful than deleterious to her preparedness for Nats.
Yes. But can they reign her in the week before Nattys? Fortunately, she has a team around her now that can make it to Natty’s without her having to worry too much about Regionals.
That’d be a PR 5k for Valby on the TRACK at 15:13 split, and keep going to run 18:37?
No way I buy that this course is accurately measured.
These people who measure these courses - do they have any self-respect where they would want to measure these courses accurately. How can you not measure a Conference championship correctly. Go out there the day before and measure it 4 times. How hard is it?
Why do so many of you care if a cross country course is measured perfectly accurately? Who cares? It's cross country. Every course is different terrain, elevation, elevation changes, weather conditions, etc, so they're never truly comparable anyway. You race to the finish, no matter if it's 5.9k or 6.1k. What matters at each split is the place and the time difference between athletes, not the actual time or K split
Watching the race, I'm curious if Doris Lemngole lost track of where she was on the course. She accelerated and even opened a small gap on Valby at 4k, which is where they run across the finish line before heading out for the final 2k loop. Then as soon as they were past the finish line, Valby took over again and dropped her, hard. I'm wondering if Lemngole didn't realize there was another lap to go.
That's pretty bad if you think the race is over 2k early.